Quotes About Leadership

Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.

The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.

Neutrals and lukewarms do not make history.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.

You have to be a little bad to make history.

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them - if there is a history.

Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

When history calls, history calls.

Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

There is no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say: 'Victory was achieved by the United States of America for the good of the world.'

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

I shall be an Attila to Venice.

Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

[I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history.

German history is full of serious mistakes pertaining to premature personnel decisions.